I wish you all a Merry Christmas…

                                                              Count the blessings…

It has been a great 2014, a year of blessings.

We started after lunch to make gift packets for the kids in the slum.

 My neice and cousins worked in a group to make the packets which was fun. We made 120 packets which contained fresh orange, two candies, one muffin and a hand full of peanuts. My whole family was delighted to help in the slum with a short program.


                           Program.

The program was to sing a few Christmas carols and actions songs.

Share the story of the birth of Jesus Christ.

Share the gospel

Distribute the gifts.

Visit the homes in the slum and pray for people.

 

This was first visit to the slum for all of my family. To see my family in the slum helping was a great feeling and an honour to serve with them.

We started with Christmas carols in Hindi and a local family in the slum who are believers sang two songs in their own Language.

Then we did two Hindi action songs which they enjoyed doing and copying us.

After this I read the story from the bible and explained the meaning of Christmas.

After this I gave a message on Jesus’s love for us all. I ended the program with a prayer of thanksgiving.

At the end my family sang ‘We wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year’.

NOW the time had come to distribute the gifts. My whole family, as guests, distributed the packets. We all enjoyed giving out the packets and said, “Happy Christmas”.

After this it was time for me to show them around and pray for people. It was so encouraging to see people opening doors for us to pray for those in their homes and also for healing. A lady I mentioned in my last blog was so happy for us to come and pray for her healing. As a family we gathered around her and prayed for her. After I’d prayed for many people I took my family to visit the little room which I use and we sang and prayed in these rooms.

I am blessed to have such family support. I had never thought that this thing would happen, I am so happy that my family could see the work of God in this slum area and be  part of serving here today.

To all of you who are reading this and praying for my ministry, I am so thankful to God for giving me such wonderful people..

May I wish you all a Merry Christmas….

  

Love is louder than words…

Love is louder than words…

What a day I had!

 Sometimes things never work according to our plans but God’s timing and plans are perfect.

In the morning I was supposed to pick up 5 boys from the slum but the motorcycle stopped working and I had to get a mechanic to come and fix it. It all took more time than I had planned.

We were supposed to be at Dehradun public school Kandoli by 9 but I couldn’t make it on time. I went to get the boys from the slum by 9.30 and took two boys with me for the function at the school.

After I got the boys Subhas and Bengun (that’s what every body calls him,he is deaf and dumb) so it’s kind of hard to manage with him sometimes. This was first time I had got their parents permission to take them out with me for the whole day.

Begun has always been so close to my heart and I have always prayed that one day he will speak.

It was a special day for him in my point of view.

Before we left I was sure Bengun needed a bath and clean clothing, so it was time for me to teach him some personal hygiene. In my home, I brought him hot water for a bucket bath which he enjoyed along with clean clothes.

I am so thankful to Andy Crider and family for giving me some old  clothes to distribute in the slums. From one the large bags Bengun chose himself some nice clothes and was ready for the winter festival at  the school. He was looking so clean and bright.

Subhas was also happy to pick some clothes for himself and his younger brother.

(I have my cousin Nitin helping at the moment with the slum work and I am so blessed to have him here).

At school we all had fun as there were different stalls offering things to eat and others were fun games.

Begun got a face painting of a joker on his cheek,enjoyed eating burgers and chicken  for lunch, then enjoyed cake and ice cream! I could see the enjoyment on his face. I wish he could speak and say what he wanted. I was so happy to see how students helped me with showing him around and playing fun games with him.

Subhas was so helpful with Begun and trying to speak with gestures because its so hard to understand what he really wants. He was having fun too. The fate ended around 3 pm, that’s when we also came back home. Begun is so intelligent he remembered the way back home so well he showed directions when to turn and  would look at me. I like when he shows thumbs up for ‘every thing is fine’. Subhas picked up some more clothes for himself and for his siblings.

So after all, it’s all about sharing God’s love.

After dropping them at home, both the families were so happy. Begus was wailing like a hero around his house showing off…

Subhas’s uncle said some thing like this to me” bhiya(brother) can you please pray to your God for my family and specially for my wife, every time we come back from our village she is demon possessed and gets sick.

So this was the note I left on from the slums today.

Please pray that God opens doors for me to share gospel with people…